Setting Health-Care Priorities: A Reply to Tännsjö
Setting Health-Care Priorities: A Reply to Tännsjö
Author(s): Robin E. GoodinSubject(s): History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Social Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Filozofii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: health-care priorities; welfare consequentialism; local justice; medical anthropology; prolonging life pointlessly
Summary/Abstract: This paper firstly distinguishes between principles of “global justice” that apply the same anywhere and everywhere – Tännsjö’s utilitarianism, egalitarianism, prioritarianism and such like – and principles of “local justice” that apply within the specific sphere of health-care. Sometimes the latter might just be a special case of the former – but not always. Secondly, it discusses reasons, many psychological in nature, why physicians might devote excessive resources to prolonging life pointlessly, showing once again that those reasons might themselves be morally significant.
Journal: Diametros
- Issue Year: 18/2021
- Issue No: 68
- Page Range: 24-32
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English